HEALTH ISSUES FOR THE ELDERLY IN SOCIAL HOUSING - (abridged version)
1 : Laboratoire Architecture, Ville, Urbanisme, Environnement
École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris Val-de-Seine
2 : Ecole Supérieure des Professions Immobilières (ESPI) - ESPI2R
Ecole Supérieure des Professions Immobilières, ESPI2R
This article uses two examples of social housing projects to show how different players' conceptions of health in housing are constructed and interact. It is based on two French cases: a new residence (2020) located in the northern suburbs of the medium-sized city of Bourges; and a project in the inner suburbs of Paris belonging to two social housing organizations, each of which is developing their own forms of health-related initiatives and labels. How do their approaches take shape, and what does a reading of the domestic territory through the notion of care contribute? This study focuses specifically on elderly women as the most representative participants in these local actions and initiatives.